clarify federation Authorization header an add destination property (#1067)

* clarify federation Authorization header an add destination property

* add changelogs

* some clarifications

* more clarifications, fixes

* use HTML in the added-in/changed-in shortcodes

* Apply suggestions from code review

Co-authored-by: Travis Ralston <travpc@gmail.com>
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Hubert Chathi 2 years ago committed by GitHub
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Clarify the format for the Authorization header.

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Add a destination property to the Authorization header.

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Step 2 add Authorization header:
GET /target HTTP/1.1
Authorization: X-Matrix origin=origin.hs.example.com,key="ed25519:key1",sig="ABCDEF..."
Authorization: X-Matrix origin="origin.hs.example.com",destination="destination.hs.example.com",key="ed25519:key1",sig="ABCDEF..."
Content-Type: application/json
<JSON-encoded request body>
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for key, sig in signed_json["signatures"][origin_name].items():
authorization_headers.append(bytes(
"X-Matrix origin=%s,key=\"%s\",sig=\"%s\"" % (
origin_name, key, sig,
"X-Matrix origin=\"%s\",destination=\"%s\",key=\"%s\",sig=\"%s\"" % (
origin_name, destination_name, key, sig,
)
))
return ("Authorization", authorization_headers)
return ("Authorization", authorization_headers[0])
```
The format of the Authorization header is given in
[RFC 7235](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7235#section-2.1). In
summary, the header begins with authorization scheme `X-Matrix`, followed by
one or more spaces, followed by a comma-separated list of parameters written as
name=value pairs. The names are case insensitive and order does not matter. The
values must be enclosed in quotes if they contain characters that are not
allowed in `token`s, as defined in
[RFC 7230](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7230#section-3.2.6); if a
value is a valid `token`, it may or may not be enclosed in quotes. Quoted
values may include backslash-escaped characters. When parsing the header, the
recipient must unescape the characters. That is, a backslash-character pair is
replaced by the character that follows the backslash.
For compatibility with older servers, the sender should
- only include one space after `X-Matrix`,
- only use lower-case names, and
- avoid using backslashes in parameter values.
For compatibility with older servers, the recipient should allow colons to be
included in values without requiring the value to be enclosed in quotes.
The authorization parameters to include are:
- `origin`: the server name of the sending server. This is the same as the
`origin` field from JSON described in step 1.
- `destination`: {{< added-in v="1.3" >}} the server name of the receiving
sender. This is the same as the `destination` field from the JSON described
in step 1. For compatibility with older servers, recipients should accept
requests without this parameter, but MUST always send it. If this property
is included, but the value does not match the receiving server's name, the
receiving server must deny the request with an HTTP status code 401
Unauthorized.
- `key`: the ID, including the algorithm name, of the sending server's key used
to sign the request.
- `signature`: the signature of the JSON as calculated in step 1.
Unknown parameters are ignored.
### Response Authentication
Responses are authenticated by the TLS server certificate. A homeserver

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{{ $this := .Params.this }}
{{ if $this }}
<span>**[New in this version]**</span>
<span><strong>[New in this version]</strong></span>
{{ else }}
<span>**[Added in `v{{ $ver }}`]**</span>
{{ end }} {{/* Do not leave an empty line at the end of this file otherwise the inline behaviour breaks. */}}
<span><strong>[Added in <code>v{{ $ver }}</code>]</strong></span>
{{ end }} {{/* Do not leave an empty line at the end of this file otherwise the inline behaviour breaks. */}}

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{{ $this := .Params.this }}
{{ if $this }}
<span>**[Changed in this version]**</span>
<span><strong>[Changed in this version]</strong></span>
{{ else }}
<span>**[Changed in `v{{ $ver }}`]**</span>
{{ end }} {{/* Do not leave an empty line at the end of this file otherwise the inline behaviour breaks. */}}
<span><strong>[Changed in <code>v{{ $ver }}</code>]</strong></span>
{{ end }} {{/* Do not leave an empty line at the end of this file otherwise the inline behaviour breaks. */}}

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